Introduction / Solange Lefebvre and Susan Ross
Ritual of life-passages: whether or not / David N. Power
New culture and new ritual requirements: challenges to the church / Louis-Marie Chauvet
'Stages of life' theories faced with globalized culture / Norbert Hintersteiner
Street children on the periphery of the 'family-of-God' church in Africa / Jean-Baptiste Vérité
Between heroic and deficient: challenges to research on children's spirituality from a Christian theological standpoint / Annemie Dillen
Spirituality 'from the mouth of babes'? / Élaine Champagne
In search of a faith of one's own: the changing shape of adolescence as a challenge to the Christian churches / Friedrich Schweitzer
Pastoral ministry to young people in South America / Jesús Andrés Vela
Ages of life and Christian faith among religious and former religious / Anthony J. Blasi
Problem of meaning in the evening of life / Claude Geffré
Women and children in the face of social conflict and disaster in Indonesia / Frieda Mangunsong.
